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No, I won’t be going as a certain actor/martial artist but I’ll certainly be in Los Angeles this week for E3 2011. I’ll be tweeting most of my updates this year and write up whatever I can at the end of the day. If you want to see and read about what’s going on, follow me on Twitter. Or check out the window below.

Well, Spore Creature Creator is set to go live today, barring some unforeseen circumstances. If you haven’t checked it out, you can see the Spore-centric YouTube page here. Folks keep populating that place with weird creatures. As of 3:33 a.m. Tuesday (I don’t sleep.), there’s about 4,212 videos. I expect that to skyrocket by the end of the day.

Meanwhile, Electronic Arts announced that Spore’s creator Will Wright (the sporer of spore) will be at the San Francisco Apple Store (the one near Union Square) this Saturday. He’ll talk about the game, may be get mobbed, probably be worshipped. Let’s hope no zombies attack.

In the unrealistic epartment, a group of gamers is suing Electronic Arts, saying the Redwood City-based company is engaging in “blatantly anticompetitive conduct” in regard to their football titles.

The East Bay Business Times has the brief. The gamers cite the difference in prices from 2005 to the present day as proof that something fishy is going. Personally, I think the move has a snowball’s chance in a really hot, hot, hot place (like Livermore) of working.

The fact that there are other football games out there kind of hurts that argument that there’s anticompetitive conduct. I know All-Pro Football 2K8 doesn’t have an NFL license but it doesn’t mean its a bad game. There’s also Tecmo’s upcoming Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff.

If anything comes out of this, I just hope that EA gets the hint that there are some fans who either want a lower price or a better-quality product.